coak

扣榫; 栓销 sunk coak (木工)凹榫槽

发音

UK /ˈkəʊk/
US /ˈkoʊk/

词形变化

coaks 复数 coaked coaking coaks 三单 coaking 现在分词 coaked 过去式 coaked 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A wooden dowel.

    可数 不可数
  2. 2.

    The brass bearing in the sheave of a block.

    可数 不可数 航海 交通
  3. 1.

    Obsolete spelling of coke (“coal fuel”).

    可数 废旧 不可数
v.
  1. 1.

    To unite (timbers etc.) by means of tenons or dowels in the edges or face.

词源

Uncertain. The 1933 Oxford English Dictionary suggests a possible relation to an Old French cognate of Italian cocca (“notch”), to English cock or to coak, caulk ("drive oakum between planks"), "all referring to the fitting of a projection into a notch, indentation, or hollow".

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